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Accounting & accountability : changes and challenges in corporate social and environmental reporting / Rob Gray, Dave Owen, Carol Adams.

By: Gray, Rob HContributor(s): Owen, Dave, 1951- | Adams, Carol AMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London : Prentice Hall, 1996. ISBN: 0131758608Subject(s): Social accounting | Industries -- Social aspects -- Accounting | Industries -- Environmental aspects -- Accounting | Social responsibility of business -- AccountingDDC classification: 658.408
Contents:
1. Social accounting and systems thinking: The failures of accounting and liberal economic democracy -- 2. Social accounting and accountability -- 3. Corporate social reporting, social responsibility, accounting and accountants -- 4. The development of social and environmental accounting and reporting -- 5. Corporate social reporting practice: An international perspective -- 6. Corporate social reporting practice: Current trends in western Europe -- 7. Social accounting and the management information system -- 8. Social Investment -- 9. The social audit movement -- 10. Accountability, transparency and sustainability: The future for CSR?
Summary: The underlying theme of Accounting and Accountability remains the role of corporate social and environmental reporting in meeting the demands for greater corporate social responsibility and accountability. However, transformations in the social climate coupled with developments in critical accounting theory have necessitated a substantial change in content. In advocating corporate social reporting as a practical and ethical alternative to conventional accounting practice, the text presents a stimulating and candid perspective on the changes and challenges within. Accounting and Accountability is written for practitioners, academics, researchers and students of financial accounting and reporting, accounting theory and accounting ethics.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Complete revision of: Corporate social reporting / Rob Gray, Dave Owen, Keith Maunders. 1987.

Bibliography: p302-328. - Includes index.

1. Social accounting and systems thinking: The failures of accounting and liberal economic democracy -- 2. Social accounting and accountability -- 3. Corporate social reporting, social responsibility, accounting and accountants -- 4. The development of social and environmental accounting and reporting -- 5. Corporate social reporting practice: An international perspective -- 6. Corporate social reporting practice: Current trends in western Europe -- 7. Social accounting and the management information system -- 8. Social Investment -- 9. The social audit movement -- 10. Accountability, transparency and sustainability: The future for CSR?

The underlying theme of Accounting and Accountability remains the role of corporate social and environmental reporting in meeting the demands for greater corporate social responsibility and accountability. However, transformations in the social climate coupled with developments in critical accounting theory have necessitated a substantial change in content. In advocating corporate social reporting as a practical and ethical alternative to conventional accounting practice, the text presents a stimulating and candid perspective on the changes and challenges within. Accounting and Accountability is written for practitioners, academics, researchers and students of financial accounting and reporting, accounting theory and accounting ethics.

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